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About the Motmot
Exploring the natural world with pencil and paper from high atop a one-story bungalow in the middle of Oklahoma.
Category Archives: Weather
Friday Figures- How to paint a tornado
Making art from destruction is a good exercise in catharsis. People do it everyday. The form it takes depends on the physical or emotional or even metaphorical destruction involved. Sometimes all three parts get whipped up together in a single … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists, Drawing, Exhibits, figure drawing, Oklahoma, painting, Tornado, Weather
Tagged art, figure drawing, life drawing, National Weather Center Biennale, Oklahoma, painting, Southwest Art Magazine, tornado, weather
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New Orleans Gumbo Report
On Magazine Street over margaritas and sherry-soaked scallop tacos, a New Orleans friend put it this way: “we are drinking people with a parading problem”. He was talking about his relatively local wheelbarrow parade, but he might have meant the … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, Art, birds, Culture, Diversions, Drawing, Food, history, Music, self-indulgence, Sketching, travel, tropics, Weather
Tagged American cultural treasures, art, drawing, Jazz, Jazzfest, Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras Indians, Nature, New Orleans, parades, travel
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A Hungry Carnival of Birds
Stuffed birds aren’t always in museums. Sometimes they’re perched in trees, crammed to the tops of their crops. They get sleepy, their heads tilt and eyes glaze over; they are simply stupefied by gluttony. Drawing songbirds through the scope is … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, Art, bird art, birding, birds, Drawing, field sketching, Food, garden, Nature, nature journaling, Oklahoma, Sketching, Weather, Wildlife
Tagged art, bird watching, birding, birds, burford holly, cedar waxwings, drawing, frugivores, holly berries, life drawing, Nature, Oklahoma, plants, scopes, sketching, Wildlife
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